Texts

verse beg. Aibhind sin, a Ériu ard

Late Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry

Long poem attributed in various manuscript copies to Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn.

First words (verse)

Aibhind sin, a Ériu ard

Author

Ascribed to: Gilla na Náem Úa DuinnÚa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)
(d. c. 1160)
Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn
Irish scholar and poet who was attached to the monastery of Inis Clothrann, now Inchcleraun (Island), in Lough Ree.
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Manuscripts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 2 [s. xiv-xv]
f. 30(31)rabeginning: ‘Aibhind sin a Eriu ard’
95qq.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
f. 2(25)vb.inf–3v.mbeginning: ‘Aibhind sin, a Eriu ard’
93qq.
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 131 [s. xvii]
pp. 97.inf–105beginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Éire ard’
97qq.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628]
f. 23v.m–27v.mbeginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Éire ard’
98qq.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.42 [s. xvii (?)]
ff. 14r–17rbeginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Eire ard’
96qq.
Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS NKS 268b = Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir [s. xvi²/xviii]
p. 31abeginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Ére árd’
73qq.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.38 [s. xvii]
pp. 171–174beginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Eire ard’
About 42qq.
Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Ir 6 [c. 1726-1728]
p. 84bbeginning: ‘Aoibhinn sin a Éire árd’
83qq.

Language

Late Middle Irish
Middle Irish?

Form

verse (primary)

Textual relationships

Referred to in Roderic O'Flaherty's Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia (1685).

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

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Secondary sources (select)

Bhreathnach, Edel, “Two contributors to the Book of Leinster: Bishop Finn of Kildare and Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn”, in: Michael Richter, and Jean-Michel Picard (eds), Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, Dublin: Four Courts, 2002. 105–111.

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January 2018, last updated: April 2021